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DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Is Electronic Community an Addictive Substance?
In this study, we examine how online games, like the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) EverQuest, are represented and controlled through media rhetoric. We l...
Florence Chee, Richard Smith
ICWSM
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
While previous studies have used the Wikipedia dataset to provide an understanding of its growth, there have been few attempts to quantitatively analyze the establishment and evol...
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean, David W. McDon...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Fostering Knowledge Evolution through Community-based Participation
The ontology development process is typically led by single or small groups of experts, with users mostly playing a passive role. Such an elitist approach in building ontologies h...
Domenico Gendarmi, Fabio Abbattista, Filippo Lanub...
HICSS
2010
IEEE
228views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
How to Establish an Online Innovation Community? the Role of Users and Their Innovative Content
We studied the evolution of an online innovation community and users’ interaction behavior through social network analysis to explore how to build an innovation community and ge...
Julia Hautz, Katja Hutter, Johann Füller, Kur...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
109views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A Life Cycle Model of Virtual Communities
The importance of virtual communities is well established in Information Systems (IS) research. A significant number of studies on this topic have focused on investigating motivat...
Elham Mousavidin, Lakshmi Goel